Photoshop: Creating an Orb Avatar

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:52 pm

Are you talking about

this one? Because if so, you used my exact same avatar and put a picture on overlay into the backround. Which, needless to say, I have done before.

lxNicktardxl · Post by **lxNicktardxl** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:05 pm

No, i didnt do that

. Ok so what? You got me. I try to get cool ones but i just cant. Thanx for bringing down my self-esteem.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:29 pm

RaVNzCRoFT wrote:Are you talking about

this one? Because if so, you used my exact same avatar and put a picture on overlay into the backround. Which, needless to say, I have done before.

may be so but at least its not a normal orb avitar, thers so many of them here lolianswbitif.

lxNicktardxl · Post by **lxNicktardxl** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:40 pm

Thanks Muti-Genre, People like you are going to save the New York City........I made a new signature but i cant find any cool brushes and im gettin' mad.

[CV] Jordan · Post by **[CV] Jordan** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:54 pm

RaVNzCRoFT wrote:
[CV] Jordan wrote:its not too hard to figure out how it was done

Actually, the blending options used to make it are quite confusing. No offense, but you have no reason to talk, because I doubt you could come up with that style if your life depended on it...

wow
i just lost all respect for you.
where did i ever say it would be easy to duplicate yours? and im not even talking about duplicating.. im talking about how it was done. why would i want to come up with that style? even if i did, it would just be copying you anyways. i would rather try tomake my own style

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:33 pm

lxNicktardxl wrote:Thanks Muti-Genre, People like you are going to save the New York City........I made a new signature but i cant find any cool brushes and im gettin' mad.

thank yaz, same for you lol, i like your avitar a lot though, really cool background, its cool how it matches your sig.

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:43 am

[CV] Jordan wrote:
RaVNzCRoFT wrote:
[CV] Jordan wrote:its not too hard to figure out how it was done

Actually, the blending options used to make it are quite confusing. No offense, but you have no reason to talk, because I doubt you could come up with that style if your life depended on it...
wow
i just lost all respect for you.
where did i ever say it would be easy to duplicate yours? and im not even talking about duplicating.. im talking about how it was done. why would i want to come up with that style? even if i did, it would just be copying you anyways. i would rather try tomake my own style

Oh, I get it. I guess I misinterpretted what you said. Sorry.

halobuddha · Post by **halobuddha** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:05 pm

Oh, I get it. I guess I misinterpretted what you said. Sorry.

everyone does it lol me especially

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JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:29 pm

the orbs were cool, now theres too many of them

halobuddha · Post by **halobuddha** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:34 pm

yaeh i know what you mean i think im probably gonna change mine they are so unoriginal

Benjyp · Post by **Benjyp** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:01 pm

heres mine

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:11 pm

too big even for a signature, read hte new rules in the "introductions and sig testing" forums.

((silence)) · Post by **((silence))** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:05 pm

ok finally...

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:19 pm

very awsome, very big

((silence)) · Post by **((silence))** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:19 am

how do i make mine so the sides rnt so fuzzy?

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:41 am

Well, to start off:

PNG saves images with better quality. Since Photobucket is down, I can't see your orb, but I'm assuming it was saved as a GIF.

GIF saves images with worse quality, but it can show transparency for all web browsers. PNG transparency is not supported in Internet Explorer. So you have two options on making your image look better:

1.) Open up the PSD file of your orb, and save it as a PNG.

2.) Open up the PSD file of your orb, and go to File > Save for Web. Set the save mode to GIF, and make sure Lossy is set to 0 and colors to 256 or whatever the highest number is.

All of the highest settings (except for lossy) will generate a higher quality image. The higher quality, the higher the file size (unfortunately). You can reduce the number of colors when you save as a GIF. This will reduce the file size when saved, but also the quality of the orb itself.

I hope this helped!

--RaVNzCRoFT

((silence)) · Post by **((silence))** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:55 am

omg i love my new one

gundamzuki · Post by **gundamzuki** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:23 am

Ok, here's my entry. I might get rid of the glare and just go with the choked look since the white cresents seem to just get in the way. Might also rearange the letters. anywho...

gif wasn't my first choice, but png just wouldn't get it down past 10k.

Here's the original 140 pixels version too.

I originally had a drop shadow on it too, but lost it in an attempt to make it a smaller file size.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:08 am

Well it doesn't look lke and orb but it looks still cool.It looks like a hole

fireinhole8 · Post by **fireinhole8** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:13 pm

to get the little glare like ya'll mentioned earlier, all u have to do is use "skew" right?